Why engage in creativity

There is a common idea that the viewer, listener or reader can be enriched by creativity, can understand and experience something important thanks to it.

Indeed, to see the world through the eyes of people who look at it very closely, to learn the thoughtful, well-formulated and filtered thoughts of others, to live through the body movements of dancers and actors who work on the precision of their movement all their lives, to hear selected combinations of sounds from the head of a person who hears more and more subtly... This certainly broadens horizons and lifts viewers above the everyday world, if only for minutes or hours.

But imagine the work authors do to be able to go beyond the limits of the norm. How many times more thoughts and feelings authors live through in order to find exactly what can be shared. The viewer sees only a small part of what the author has enriched themselves with while making the work. Any work is a summary, or the final thought, of its author.

The viewer cannot be enriched by what the author gained during the search. By what remained in the studio, in the rehearsal room, in the drafts and in the authors’ heads.

How many sounds a musician learned to combine before choosing particular ones for a particular piece. And how many colour combinations an artist felt through in order to show just one. How many body movements and voice intonations an actor put into their piggy bank in order to choose the right ones for a role.

To create works that go beyond the norm, the author has to create a self that goes beyond the norm. Creativity is a wonderful reason to become better.

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